Free Cities City League event

[Kh3lben]

Anyone has the slightest idea if there are hidden triggers for this event and what is the mtth for it? This is all i can find in the game files and it's not helping me gain any insight.

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# City League
country_event = {
id = free_cities.13
title = free_cities.13.t
desc = free_cities.13.d
picture = FREE_CITY_eventPicture

is_triggered_only = yes

trigger = {
has_dlc = "Common Sense"
government = imperial_city
is_at_war = no
NOT = { has_country_modifier = fc_city_league }
any_known_country = {
government = imperial_city
is_at_war = no
culture_group = ROOT
NOT = { has_country_modifier = fc_city_league }
NOT = { is_rival = ROOT }
NOT = { is_enemy = ROOT }
NOT = {
has_opinion_modifier = { who = ROOT modifier = opinion_refused_league }
}
has_opinion = {
who = ROOT
value = 25
}
ROOT = {
has_opinion = {
who = PREV
value = 25
}
}
}
}

mean_time_to_happen = {
days = 1
}

option = {
name = free_cities.13.a
add_dip_power = -100
random_country = {
limit = {
government = imperial_city
is_at_war = no
culture_group = ROOT
NOT = { has_country_modifier = fc_city_league }
NOT = { is_rival = ROOT }
NOT = { is_enemy = ROOT }
NOT = {
has_opinion_modifier = { who = ROOT modifier = opinion_refused_league }
}
has_opinion = {
who = ROOT
value = 25
}
ROOT = {
has_opinion = {
who = PREV
value = 25
}
}
}
country_event = {
id = free_cities.14
}
}
}
option = {
name = free_cities.13.b
add_prestige = 10
}
}

All i m getting out of this is that i should have +25 +25 relations with another Free City in my culture group and the event automatically fires. I ve played several campaigns with Hamburg up to 1500(stayed an OPM Free city ofc) and only got it to trigger once. Any ideas ? What am i understanding wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Horn and Ivory]

Free city events fire on a four-year pulse. I don't know how it weights the different events in the class or where you'd find that out. (See: https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/List_of_event_lists#4_year_pulse)

(The mtth will be one day, but that's a nominal rather than a useful number, meaning 'on average 1 day after the trigger condition (the four-year pulse) has been met'.)

 

[Kh3lben]

Thank you that was rather helpful. So the first free city even should pop around 1449 which again contradicts with my experience from all these runs. During most of them i got the
Wellborns with Weapons event and most of the times it was around 1480ish , with no other events happening before or after. Still confused tbh :d

 

[Horn and Ivory]

Thank you that was rather helpful. So the first free city even should pop around 1449 which again contradicts with my experience from all these runs. During most of them i got the
Wellborns with Weapons event and most of the times it was around 1480ish , with no other events happening before or after. Still confused tbh :d

'No event' will also have a weight. It can be a much larger weight than any of the events in the set depending on how common the devs want them to be. Looking at the free city events it seems like they'd be pretty vicious if you got one every time.

 

[Aythne]

Thank you that was rather helpful. So the first free city even should pop around 1449 which again contradicts with my experience from all these runs. During most of them i got the
Wellborns with Weapons event and most of the times it was around 1480ish , with no other events happening before or after. Still confused tbh :d

The pulses always include 'no events' as a possibility. iirc, it's the most heavily weighted.

 

[Kh3lben]

Thank you both . I wonder if there is some way to find out the precise weights somewhere in the game files. Last question if anyone knows : are the events in the same group(4 year check) mutually exclusive? I.e if a colonial nation gets an event does that mean that free city events are out till the next check?

 

[Aythne]

Thank you both . I wonder if there is some way to find out the precise weights somewhere in the game files. Last question if anyone knows : are the events in the same group(4 year check) mutually exclusive? I.e if a colonial nation gets an event does that mean that free city events are out till the next check?

Yes, you could probably find the precise weights if you dug around. That's how the others listed on the wiki were likely found.

And yes, a single pulse fires a single event from the list. That particular pulse is only for government types, though, so no country is eligible for more than one.